Articles by Journaliste en danger (JED)
Programming director of RTNC/Kisangani suspended for indeterminate period
(JED/IFEX) – On 6 August 2003, Etienne Bwande Bwana Pua, programming director of the national broadcaster Congolese National Radio-television’s (Radiotélévision nationale congolaise, RTNC) local station in Kisangani, the main town in Eastern province, was suspended for an indeterminate period by Alimasi Mayanga, the RTNC’s provincial director. Mayanga accused Bwana Pua of failing to include the […]
Director of public broadcaster’s local station threatened by former rebel group RCD/Goma
(JED/IFEX) – Alimasi Mayanga, director of the national broadcaster Congolese National Radio-television’s (Radiotélévision nationale congolaise, RTNC) local station in Kisangani, the main town in the Eastern province, has been repeatedly threatened since 2 August 2003 by members of the former rebel group Congolese Rally for Democracy (Rassemblement congolais pour la démocratie, RCD/Goma). Mayanga is being […]
Journalist sentenced to five years’ imprisonment in Likasi
(JED/IFEX) – On 11 July 2003, Donatien Nyembo Kimuni, a correspondent in Lubumbashi (Katanga province’s main town, in the country’s southeastern region) for the independent Kinshasa-based weekly “La Tribune”, was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment by a court in Likasi, a town located 120 kilometres from Lubumbashi. The court also ordered his immediate arrest. “La […]
Publication director of “Le Democrate” newspaper arrested in Bangui
(JED/IFEX) – On 11 July 2003, police officers arrested Ferdinand Samba, publication director of the daily “Le Démocrate”, based in Bangui, the capital, at the headquarters of the Central African Republic Private and Independent Press Publishers’ Association (Groupement des éditeurs de la presse privée et indépendante de Centrafrique, GEPPIC). Samba is being held at the […]
Two journalists arrested in Tshikapa
(JED/IFEX) – Roger-Salomon Lulemba bin Kiabululu, a correpondent for the Kinshasa-based weekly “L’Eveil” in Tshikapa (West Kasai province), was arrested on 12 July 2003 at 6:30 p.m. (local time). The journalist was picked up by Congolese National Police (Police nationale congolaise, PNC) officers posted at Tshikapa city hall. Lulemba was first taken to the PNC’s […]
Former rebel group gives Radio Maendeleo conditional permission to resume broadcasting
(JED/IFEX) – According to a press release that was read on the air on 8 July 2003 at 7:00 a.m. (local time) on RTNC/Bukavu, a Congolese National Radio-television provincial radio station controlled by the Congolese Rally for Democracy (Rassemblement congolais pour la démocratie, RCD/Goma), on 7 July, Jean-Pierre Lola Kisanga, the official in charge of […]
Media worker abducted and killed in Bunia
(JED/IFEX) – The following is an 8 July 2003 JED letter to the head of the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC): Kinshasa, 8 July 2003 Ambassador William Lacy Swing Head of the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) KINSHASA/GOMBE Mr. Ambassador, Re: media worker’s […]
Publication director sentenced to six months’ imprisonment
(JED/IFEX) – On 26 June 2003, a court in La Lobaye, a city located 105 kilometres from Bangui, the capital, sentenced Michel Ngokpele, publication director of the Bangui-based newspaper “Le quotidien de Bangui”, to six months’ imprisonment with no parole for “defamation by means of the press” and “incitement to ethnic hatred”. According to JED’s […]